Does anyone happen to know what Unicode normalization form Xerces 
uses when reading a non-UCS character set such as ISO-8859-6 or SJIS? 
The issue is that some characters can be decoded to more than one 
different Unicode character or characters. For example, is e with 
accent acute é or é (ASCII e plus combining accent 
acute.)

Normally the difference doesn't matter, but canonical XML (and thus 
XML encryption) requires that Unicode normalization form C be used.

Java 1.4 also appears to be deficient in documenting exactly which 
normalization  form it actually uses.
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